Several prep days had the entire crew submerged into the Kazakh national applied arts. By the end of the shoot day, even the visiting DOP from Kiev Yuri Barsuk embraced all the peculiarities of making of the traditional Kazakh syrmak. Same could be told about director Askhat Abzhanov and production designer Yana Tyulkina. The alst two pretty much mastered the skill. The invited syrmak expert eagerly introduced everyone to the skill of making the syrmak. By the way, the expert affected the director so much, that she got a role in this commercial spot.